Ding Chengyun (1944-) is a famous guqin artist and calligrapher. Academics rated his performance as "vigorous and elegant, reflecting the perfect combination of a scholar and a performer", and he is one of the most accomplished performers in the contemporary era.
Chinese name: Ding Chengyun.
Alias: No.1 Yimen layman
Nationality: China.
Place of birth: Kaifeng, Henan
Date of birth:1March 944
Occupation: Scholar, zither player.
Graduation school: Hubei Institute of the Arts.
Major achievements: Repairing musical instruments that have been lost for thousands of years.
Representative works: On Yi Yin, Brief Analysis of the Tradition of Making Qin in China, Research on Music Qupai in Han and Tang Dynasties, Harp and Harp Harmony, etc.
brief introduction
Ding Chengyun, born in Dengzhou, Henan Province, 1944 was born in Kaifeng, Henan Province in March. A famous guqin player. Since childhood, I have studied Qin and Zheng with my sister Ding Boqin, and later studied under Gu and Mr. Zhang Ziqian, the masters of guqin, and traveled to Zhongzhou Qin artists Chen Zhongsi, Chen Shusan and Huang Songtao, the king of Zhongzhou Zheng. He has studied Qin for more than forty years, devoted himself to the study of China musicology and Zhongzhou Zheng School, the research and development of Qin, Qin and Zheng instruments, excavated and restored the guqin strings and playing methods that have been lost for more than a thousand years, rescued and promoted the declining Zhongzhou ancient tune, and promoted the China music tradition. Through playing, I found more than ten piano pieces, such as Chang, Bai Xue, Liu Heyou, Liu Quan, Qing, Xiu and so on. He is a representative figure of Zhongzhou Qin School and Zhongzhou Zheng School. He loved China culture and art from an early age. /kloc-since the age of 0/3, he has studied poetry, calligraphy and painting under Mr. Jin Zhi, Mr. Wu Muyao and Mr. Cai Dequan. He also learned Shaolin and Tai Chi Kung Fu from his predecessors such as Lu and Fan Jingyi. As the saying goes, playing the piano outside the piano benefits a lot. The cultural foundation laid by Kaifeng has a great influence on his later aesthetic orientation and artistic development. The China Kung Fu he learned has a great relationship with his unique pronunciation when he later played the piano.
Personal record
1969 graduated from the Department of Instrumental Music of Hubei Art Institute;
1972 teaches at Henan university;
198 1 year lecturer;
1986 associate professor;
1992 professor and head of the music department;
1998 director, institute of music and art, Henan university.
200 1 Professor of Music Department of Wuhan Conservatory of Music.
postal service
He is currently a visiting professor at the China Conservatory of Music, a visiting professor at the University of South China in Taiwan Province Province, a vice president of China Qin Society, a vice president of China Music History Society, a director of china law society, an executive director of China Zheng Society, a member of China Musicians Association and a member of China Celebrity Association. 20 1 1 Mr. Ding Chengyun was appointed by the Ministry of Culture as the sole representative of Guqin professional president of China Kunqu Guqin Research Association.
The social status of the family
Mr. Ding was born in an artistic family in Henan Province. Four of the six brothers and sisters study music, and the second sister is Ding Boling, a famous guzheng player. Since the age of 10, Ding Chengyun has been studying guqin, guzheng and other musical instruments with his second sister, and has a special liking for guqin.
After entering middle school, Ding Chengyun's obsession with Guqin became out of control. Through the recommendation of my second sister, I studied under Professor Gu, the representative of Guqin School of Sichuan School, and became the fourth generation descendant of Guqin School of Pan-Sichuan School in Qing Dynasty.
1964, Ding Chengyun came to Hubei Art Institute, the predecessor of Wuhan Conservatory of Music, to study and became friends with some old guqin gentlemen in Wuhan, such as Chen Shusan, Huang Songtao and Fan. They often "get together" on weekends to learn skills. Regrettably, shortly after the Cultural Revolution, "Ya Ji" was banned and the guqin was smashed.
After graduating from Ding Chengyun University, he was assigned to teach at Henan University. At that time, when the Henan provincial government received foreign guests, it often needed to introduce China traditional music. Ding Chengyun has a chance to regain the guqin.
contribution
The traditional guqin is very quiet, which affects the playing effect. Ding Chengyun, who studied carpentry, decided to improve the guqin. Two years later, he made his first guqin, and he didn't need a microphone when playing in a small concert hall. In the process of making guqin, Ding Chengyun made an in-depth study of the guqin system since the Tang Dynasty, and published a long article "Traditional Chinese Guqin Making in Musical Instruments", which began to make its mark in the field of guqin.
In 2003, Chinese Guqin was successfully selected as the world's "oral and intangible cultural heritage of mankind", and Ding Chengyun made a contribution to this. When the Ministry of Culture organized the application materials, Ding Chengyun was one of the main document providers. In this document, Ding Chengyun's music "Ren Shenchang" is introduced in a large space.
achievement
Ding Chengyun is a famous scholar and guzheng player at home and abroad. Academics rated his performance as "vigorous and elegant, reflecting the perfect combination of a scholar and a performer", and he is one of the most accomplished guzheng performers in the contemporary era. In recent years, there has been a major breakthrough in the study of the tuning and playing methods of ancient musical instruments, which has revived the ancient musical instruments that have been lost for more than 1000 years. In the aspect of music research, after the publication of 1983 "A Textual Research on the Tunes of Qing, Ping and Se", after twenty years of unremitting and painstaking research, the eternal mystery of the three tunes of Qin and Shang Dynasty, Chu tune and Biantune has been gradually uncovered. He has published dozens of papers in national core journals, such as Textual Research on Three Tones in Qing Dynasty, On Chanting, Tracing the Origin of Qin Tone, On Five Tones, Hooking Ancient Tones, and Turning Palace Law. 1992 presided over the Shang Qing Music Seminar; Many solo concerts and ensemble concerts of Guqin have been held at home and abroad, with beautiful and elegant timbre and wide acclaim.
action
Speaking of learning the piano, I was first enlightened by my second sister Ding Boling, and later she introduced me to Mr. Gu, a guqin master who had taught in Shenyang Conservatory of Music. He often used his holidays to go to Shenyang to learn from his teacher and care for his old age. Under the guidance of Gu Lao, he gradually stepped into the Guqin art hall.
Later, Ding Chengyun went to Wuhan to study, with little news. Until 1978, Ding Chengyun visited Gu Lao's hometown in Hunan. This time, Gu Lao took Ding Chengyun's hand, taught him how to play the "Hundred Bottles Zhai" version of Running Water, and told him to take out the music theory such as Guangling San as soon as possible. These days, Ding Chengyun kept asking questions, from playing the piano, playing music, playing people, playing the piano to making a piano.
1972 Ding Chengyun teaches in the Art Department of Henan University. At that time, Henan University often had the task of receiving foreign guests. By chance, Matsuyama Mikiko, a Japanese ballet artist, visited, and Ding Chengyun played the geese in Pingsha transplanted from Guqin with a guzheng. Matsuyama Mikiko is very grateful. She said, "I listened to your performance with my eyes closed, not like one piano playing, but like ten pianos playing." This activity had a great influence on the foreign affairs activities at that time, and also gave him the opportunity to often play for foreign guests. He took this opportunity to start playing guqin in public.
In the next few years, he took advantage of his vacation, carrying his own self-made variant Fuxi grand piano, and went to Shanghai to consult Mr. Zhang Ziqian, the master of Guangling School. Zhang Lao saw that he was so persistent in the art of guqin, regardless of his age, and gave everything for each other. In addition to Zhang Lao's famous songs of Guangling School such as Mei Nong and Dragon Vanilla, he also specially studied Chuwang Guo's famous song Xiaoxiang Water Cloud. It took Ding Chengyun five days to learn this great song. When he left Shanghai, he played this song "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud" in Mr. Yao Bingyan's home, which was greatly appreciated by the older generation of pianists in Shanghai.
trait
Later, after years of training, during his career, Ding Chengyun gradually infiltrated the profound spirit of China culture into the piano through in-depth study and understanding of China culture, and formed his unique style. The sound is heavy and ancient, such as cotton wrapped in iron; Fingers are like flowing clouds, lifting weights as easily as possible; The piano sound is elegant and the weather is high; The handling of piano music is not trivial, but ingenious and innovative. In today's world-wide atmosphere of advocating performance and skills, his piano playing style is more simple and elegant, unique, permeated with fresh cultural atmosphere, showing the charm and wisdom of creative inheritance. While adhering to the tradition, he did not rest on his laurels, but pursued tirelessly, constantly understanding and interpreting ancient music and pushing it to a new realm and height. This is what he always said: to display the cultural spirit of China with guqin.
There is a saying in the Book of Songs: wives like to get along with each other, like a piano. It can be said that the guqin is inseparable from the piano, and the piano is inseparable from the piano. However, since the end of the Tang Dynasty, ancient instruments have become court decorations, and "Qin Qin Ming" has been lost. In 2000, based on the ancient musical instruments unearthed from several ancient tombs, Ding Chengyun successfully restored this ancient musical instrument that had been lost for nearly a thousand years. His wife, Fu Lina, is also a professor at Wuhan Conservatory of Music. She has been engaged in music education in China for a long time and has taken the initiative to play the piano. They often learn from each other. Professor Ding Chengyun's reappearance of the guqin and his exploration of its playing methods, coupled with his wife's delicate interpretation of the guqin, made it possible to "be friends with the harp", and their ensemble became a real "harmony between the harp and the harp", which was once a much-told story in the piano industry. The husband and wife have held piano and harp concerts in the United States, Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong, China and other places for many times, and each time there was a "hurricane of learning the piano".
Ding Chengyun said that his family has lived in Kaifeng for three generations: since his grandfather opened a knitting workshop in Kaifeng, his father Ding Yuyu graduated from Henan University, and then studied in Britain and became a professor at Henan University. Ding Chengyun finished high school in Kaifeng and returned to Henan University to teach for 30 years after graduating from college. He grew up in Kaifeng and spent the first half of his life in Kaifeng. His wife Fu Lina is also from Kaifeng. She used to be an associate professor in the Conservatory of Music of Henan University, and transferred to Wuhan Conservatory of Music on 200 1, so they have deep feelings for Kaifeng. He often calls himself Yimen pianist or Yimen layman in his works, but he never forgets that he is from Kaifeng. He said that he would go back to Kaifeng almost once a year to see the ever-changing face of his hometown and visit the teachers, friends and villagers who raised him and cared about him.
works
Harp and Song is an ancient music album recently released by Golden Bee Records, and it is also the first harp and song album in the world. Qin means guqin. The stringed instrument is also one of the most important stringed instruments in ancient China, which was as famous as Qin in ancient times. In the Book of Songs and other ancient books, there are a lot of descriptions about harps, such as "wives get along well, such as tuning harps" and "harps are made, so they are quiet and good", which shows the elegance of harps. In the record, Professor Ding Chengyun, a famous professor in China, and his wife Fu Lina were invited to play the pipa. The professor has in-depth research on the reproduction and performance methods of guqin, and Mr. Ding's delicate interpretation of guqin has made this song "The Rabbit of Qin and Sound". In the records, * * * included eight works, four of which were harp and harp ensemble, including Chang, Three Stories of Yangguan, Fish Question and Answer and. In the record, everyone can enjoy the extraordinary sound effects of the ensemble of the harp and the harp, and the exquisite performance of Ding Chengyun and his wife can be said to reproduce the Millennium heritage of the harmony of the harp and the harp.